The biological webbing was part of one of the stupidest spider-runs I ve ever read, where peter was actually turned into a giant spider, which died to give birth to himself.Shirley wrote:The Googles say you're right. I thought I remembered that it was mainly mechanical, but sometime biological even in the old comics. Looks like that's a fairly recent thing.A_B wrote:MOst of them have mechanical webbing in my experience. The tobey maguire stuff really pissed of the purists, like rass said.Shirley wrote:Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.rass wrote:Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.
Anyway, the organic shooters were retconned out when spiderman made a deal with mephisto to restore his secret identity (while also erasing his mariage to MJ, something which to this day is still quite divise among fans)